Unsure if its a scam website/Call/Text?

JimmyCorkhill · 17-03-2021 9:01pm

corkie wrote: »

Have you tried contacting them directly and asking?

https://www.nbshoesireland.com/contact_us.html

They have a big advert on the website: -

'Made in Ireland'

Was hoping to order now & not wait but maybe comtacting them is the best bet.

I know it says Made in Ireland - but wasnt sure if that is all items etc.

Would u still reccomend contacting them?

Ogham · 17-03-2021 9:15pm

JimmyCorkhill wrote: »

Looking to order something from New Balance website - value is around 180 euros.

How do I figure out where the item is being delivered from etc. to understand if I am likely to get hit for additional costs.

It is the nbshoesireland website but not sure if that means much.

Thanks

Looks like a fake site to me.

sniper_samurai · 17-03-2021 9:17pm

Ogham wrote: »

Looks like a fake site to me.

It is, this is the real one.

https://www.newbalance.ie/

Alpha&Omega · 29-03-2021 12:09am

Just wanted to give folks a heads up about an online shoe shop that's a scam.

http://www.grosserscher.de/ is the site. I found grosserscher.de in a google search because I was looking for sites with my size in a particular pair of trainers. But as soon as I clicked on it and saw all sizes were available, but at 1/3 of the price of elsewhere my suspicions were raised. A look around their site and it seemed all of their stock was a price that seems too good to be true.

It was confirmed for sure when I emailed the manufacturers of the trainers, and they explained that they no longer make that style of trainer (hence why my size was out of stock everywhere), that they also never heard of grosserscher.de who isn't one of their clients and never sent them any stock, and that some of the shoe sizes available on the scam site are not even manufactured by the original company.

Avoid!

whomitconcerns · 29-03-2021 6:33am

Tbh while you may be correct, nothing you have said above necessarily means they are a scam website.

Looking at it, its just like like millions of other sites a normal rational person wouldn't order from in a fit.

Alpha&Omega · 29-03-2021 6:37am

whomitconcerns wrote: »

Tbh while you may be correct, nothing you have said above necessarily means they are a scam website.

Care to add something to the shopping cart, and put your credit card details into their account and prove me wrong?

Just take one proper look at the site. It's dodgy as you like. The 'Contact Us' form doesn't work either.

As for the 'normal rational person' remark. Not everyone is as smart or wonderful as you apparently, hence the heads up.

whomitconcerns · 29-03-2021 6:40am

Alpha&#937 wrote: »

Care to add something to the shopping cart, and put your credit card details into their account and prove me wrong?

Why would I, no matter what it's status is, I wouldn't consider ordering from some non entity site like that anyway. Pretty sure most wouldn't.

There are millions of websites the same as it

Cabaal · 29-03-2021 7:23am

OP, honestly there's no benefit to this thread.

There are countless millions of scam sites, we don't need a thread for each one. We're better off with one thread that educates people on how to spot them.

If the prices on this website were your red flag then I'm sorry to say you missed numerous other red flags before this, including but not limited to

- The simply awful design of the website
- Honestly, the website is awful and has a terrible mix of English and german
- But seriously, the website is just awful, its from the 1990's
- None of the social media link works
- There's no proper company info available including company number, registered address, phone or email

Honestly, I find it strange that you had to waste time emailing the manufacturer to realise this was a scam website

CelticRambler · 29-03-2021 7:36am

whomitconcerns wrote: »

Tbh while you may be correct, nothing you have said above necessarily means they are a scam website.

Looking at it, its just like like millions of other sites a normal rational person wouldn't order from in a fit.

True enough - sites like this one: http://www.praxis-dr-mark.de/ - an exact copy, apart from the stock.

There are red flags all over the site (links to social media pages go nowhere; .de domain even though the site is entirely written in Dutch; laws of California apply; owned by the Onze Winkel Group Ltd, so not Dutch, not German, not American ... ) so added to what the OP has pointed out everything points to it being a scam/phising site.

At this time, when people in Ireland are looking for alternatives to their favourite GB sites, there's nothing wrong with pointing out fake shopfronts masquerading as .de stores.

Cheshire Cat · 29-03-2021 10:05am

The biggest giveaway is that the language of a supposedly German site is Dutch!

Cabaal · 29-03-2021 12:54pm

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

The biggest giveaway is that the language of a supposedly German site is Dutch!

In my defense, I don't know german and went purely on .de :pac:

biko · 29-03-2021 1:01pm

It's Dutch and also the site is in http when any respectable ecommerce site is in https

AgnesCalhoun1 · 05-04-2021 4:27pm

Hey, came across this site that is selling Brooks shoes at low prices 40-70 per pair. Any ideas if this is legit? cascadiaireland.com

fritzelly · 05-04-2021 4:36pm

AgnesCalhoun1 wrote: »

Hey, came across this site that is selling Brooks shoes at low prices 40-70 per pair. Any ideas if this is legit? cascadiaireland.com

Scam

corkie · 26-04-2021 9:14pm

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Itchyness · 03-05-2021 9:30pm

Selling an item on donedeal and the guy wants to arrange courier pick up but to also pay via "DHL" using dhl.com.forpays.info / cashxxxxxxxx I presume its the basic "we over paid you" scam. Website was only set up 2 days ago. Just putting it out there for others.

fritzelly · 03-05-2021 9:59pm

That is redirecting to DHL

tiredblondie · 01-06-2021 3:30pm

i got a text the other day about a delivery from DHL (which i was expecting one) and clicked on the link - i only copped afterwards that it was coming from MCT/Suitopia which is not a delivery i was expecting.

I presume this was the flubot? I ran a scan on my phone and it says no threat found

Got another today which i didn't click on, again from DHL saying "pending package" - again, i presume this is flubot?

Is it likely with the no threats found on the scan that i'm actually ok??

fritzelly · 01-06-2021 3:42pm

You're fine as long as you didn't download anything

tiredblondie · 01-06-2021 3:47pm

fritzelly wrote: »

You're fine as long as you didn't download anything

No, i didn't download anything - the link on the first one brought be to a DHL page and "does not exist" message

ShayNanigan · 02-06-2021 4:26pm

Anyone have experience with impericon.com or metalshop.eu? My finger is itching to crab a few Led Zeppelin shirts but I just don't know whether to trust these sites or not. Then there's emp.ie but don't trust it either.

fritzelly · 02-06-2021 4:45pm

They all look fine - at least not screaming "I'm some chinese scam"

carveone · 02-06-2021 5:09pm

fritzelly wrote: »

You're fine as long as you didn't download anything

It's a bit brute force - it's a link to pull an APK which, as it's not from Playstore, you have to manually install, changing your phone settings in order to do so.

Sophos had an example which shows a nice looking "DHL" website (which is not DHL) giving you step by step instructions on how to override your phone and install the malware!

You'd think people wouldn't do this, but apparently they do.

(Myself, I blame cookies for this "yes to everything" default approach which is so damaging. You've clicked yes-whatever-now-go-away 300 times today, why not one more?)

eirman · 18-06-2021 8:24pm

carveone wrote: »

(Myself, I blame cookies for this "yes to everything" default approach which is so damaging. You've clicked yes-whatever-now-go-away 300 times today, why not one more?)

That's certainly a most apposite observation carveone

m8 · 05-10-2021 12:45pm

Does anyone know if this site is genuine or not?

Has anyone here purchased anything from them, I see loads of ads in adverts but no purchases.

https://www.clicabox.com/

Atlantic Dawn · 05-10-2021 12:51pm

It's selling unbranded junk which you will then receive the complain the quality is absolute rubbish. I would say it's genuine in that you will receive something.

GBX · 05-10-2021 12:53pm

Never heard of them. Decent reviews on https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/clicabox.com - the registration checks out on CRO.ie

wassie · 05-10-2021 12:56pm

And their sole contact details for anything is an email address - says it all really.

m8 · 05-10-2021 12:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979012#Comment_117979012

Yes that's what I was thinking when I done a whois.

Uncle Pierre · 05-10-2021 3:34pm

Was actually looking at them a few months ago myself. The fact that it's such a basic Shopify site was a big red flag for me too. Also the fact that there are several examples of strangely-phrased sentences and curious English. I find it very difficult to take them seriously.

Darc19 · 06-10-2021 10:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117978997#Comment_117978997

Eh, almost every 5 star review is from someone that has only ever written that review and not a single other review.

I've looked at my trustpilot reviews and almost all reviewers have made numerous other reviews.

Hence you can be fairly certain that these are all fake reviews

GBX · 06-10-2021 11:35pm

Yeah should have elaborated on the reviews. Way too many copy paste for it to be legit.

HorseSea · 08-11-2021 1:18pm

I would run a mile. No way I would order from them based on the site.

Wheety · 08-11-2021 1:20pm

Discussed near the bottom of this page.

Unsure if its a scam website? - Page 6 — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin'

Uncle Pierre · 09-11-2021 3:01pm

Yeah, run a mile. My own post at the top of this page refers to them too. Was in much the same situation as yourself, in looking for something that was difficult to source at the time, but too many red flags over that site for me to take a chance on them.

Darc19 · 10-11-2021 11:20pm

Clicabox.com is without any doubt a scam site.

The so-called Cro registration is a business name registration at a residential address in Meath.

Their terms and conditions are against distance selling regulations in that they will not accept returns.

They accept amex but not PayPal because of cost? Amex are more expensive than PayPal. Also amex don't operate in Ireland.

So I would be 100% certain that clicabox.com is a scam website that should be avoided

CheezePleeze · 03-02-2022 11:33am

I'm selling my electric guitar online.

I get this eager buyer, wants to buy without trying out the guitar.

Sends me a link to paysmode: https://fastway.paysmode.com/cash73160672

COMPLETE SCAM - You've got to put in your full card details.

AVOID AVOID AVOID

Eliza_irl · 11-04-2022 5:16pm

Hi Darc19,

I am the owner of the website.

And I am absolutely disgusted with the false allegations here.

I do hope that You realise that slander online without any kind of proof, is illegal and a company can take legal action against You for damaging its name online.

For Your information, Clicabox.com is a legit website, registered to a home address- as we are a very small business,that only operates online. And our offices are home based.

We do not have offices outside of that as of yet, other than our storages. Your reasons for calling us a scam, are very misleading. Also, it is devastating to see how lightly people write things without verifying them and cause a damage to the business.

We have been on the market for almost 1.5 years, that is how long we have been selling for. with of course some negative feedbacks out there, just like any other businesses- You can not always keep everyone happy. However, about 99.9% would reccomend us to others.If You actually researched properly You would be able to find feedback on adverts, 100% postive and trustpilot, where we have asked our customers to write feedback.

Our customers are always invited and asked to leave feedback. As a small business, the feedback matters to us, and we learn from it.

However, Your opinion isnt a valuable feedback to the business, it is misleading and offensive.

For Your information, the payments listed below by Yourself are actually handled by shopify itself, where we are always charged the same rate per payment. ( shopify handles it ) if we were to add Paypal, it would mean that we would have to pay shopify fees and paypal. Also, paypal is not reliable form of payment for us the sellers, as there are people out there who will receive their item, lie & try and claim money back. As a small business we can not let that happen to us. So we are trying to protect ourselves.

By reading some of the opinions on here, I have definitely taken on board the red flags that You all have mentioned and this is something that me and my business partner will work on.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148670#Comment_118148670

fryup · 25-04-2022 7:39pm

Not strictly website related but - -someone i don't know transferred €250 into my paypal account today - i'm not selling anything anywhere at the moment, is this tee'ing up for a scam?😶

Anj1813 · 28-04-2022 9:53am

Be careful guys. Any end of domain, domain extension different than ".com" or ".ie" is suspicious. You can see here ".in" India 🤣🤣🤣

ohnonotgmail · 28-04-2022 10:05am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118987163#Comment_118987163

any text message claiming to be from An Post containing a link to pay customs charges is a scam irrespective of what the domain extension is. the legit messages contain a reference number and tell you to go to the An Post website to pay it but do not include a link. this is what a legit message looks like. the top number is a tracking number, the bottom one is the customs reference

Muahahaha · 29-04-2022 12:01pm

Has anyone bought from a site called Xtreme Inn / Trade Inn? Want to get these here but unsure of it is a Chinese site or where they are shipping from, if it could be counterfeit product etc

https://www.tradeinn.com/xtremeinn/en/dc-shoes-crisis-2-trainers/138152486/p?utm_source=google_products&utm_medium=merchant&id_producte=13339567&country=ie&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qiTBhBbEiwAp-GE0Rfcor9XH8gKe0xT3TX98d4cMb8bQ9L0lUuNcY17bP91WjEtoJY4cRoCJZUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

whiterebel · 29-04-2022 12:16pm

I've bought before from their Tennis site. Everything was ok, multiple payment options. Also offer quite a few different delivery options.

Uncle Pierre · 29-04-2022 3:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118912164#Comment_118912164

Interesting to read this from you here.

For the record, I don't believe myself that clicabox is a scam website, as in entirely fraudulent. I believe that if I ordered something from you, I'd eventually get something. But there are still several reasons why I wouldn't order from you, and since you say you welcome feedback, here are some of those reasons:

What appears to be blatant disregard for the Customer Rights Directive (CRD). This is EU law, and you can't just pick and choose. Under CRD, customers are entitled to a physical address and phone number - but you don't provide either. And far worse is how you completely ignore your obligations under the "cooling off" provision. You cannot simply say you don't accept returns unless the item is faulty. Under EU law, you must accept returns within 14 days.
The overall poor design of basic elements of your website suggests a very unprofessional operation. Consider using transparent PNG images of items for sale, rather than white background JPEGs against the off-white colour of the web page itself. Alternatively, use thin frames around the item images. And you should definitely re-size all the images to a uniform size, instead of some being taller than others.
The English on your FAQ page - where I might normally look for reassurance - is also very unprofessional. It's full of poor punctuation and unnecessary capitalisation, with some questionable sentence structure in there too. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Frankly, I find some of your claims literally incredible. For example: "All of the products that are available online are in stock". I simply don't believe that if I were to right now order a near 10-metre swimming pool (€2,000), a 7-metre one (€1,580), five different types of e-bikes, and four different sets of patio furniture, that you've got it all in stock right now, ready to ship out. But I stand to be happily corrected, maybe by you putting up a picture of these items in whatever massive warehouse you must use in order to store all these "in stock" items?
Realistically, to have all items on your website in stock would mean you'd be sitting on hundreds of thousands (or possibly even millions) worth of stock. This doesn't tally with being a small business operating from a home address, and with a basic Shopify website.

I strongly suspect you're simply a dropshipping operation, and this in itself would explain your illegal 'no returns' policy. There's nothing wrong in essence with dropshipping, but you still have to comply with the law. Your refusal to do so is the main reason I wouldn't shop with you myself, and why I'd advise others against it too. If you won't even comply with statutory obligations, I'd expect your 'regular' customer service wouldn't exactly be top-notch either.

I hope this feedback is useful to you.

Muahahaha · 29-04-2022 6:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118992666#Comment_118992666

thanks whiterebel, good to know someone has used it without trouble. And yeah delivery for runners from Spain is only 6.99 which is decent so will go ahead and order, thanks again

joujoujou · 01-05-2022 9:28am

^^ I've bought from them as well, many times. Would definately recommend.

Suckit · 11-05-2022 5:52pm

My mother was abroad, and while she was she missed a load of calls from an Irish number ( +353 86 020 5296 ). She tried to ring back a few times but got nothing.

Since she has arrived home she got more of them, and tried ringing back. Today she was able to answer the call and they said it was amazon but she couldn't understand much else. She said it was spoken really slow - "AM... A... ZON..." but nothing else.

I have blocked the number now as I was around and she told me about it. She has an amazon account from years ago, she literally only used to set up a fire tablet that she never looked at.

She has free Amazon Prime with eir, that she doesn't use.

They are the only two links we can think of between her and amazon, not that I think it is amazon, but I don't get what the scam is. It is or at least seems to be an Irish number that doesn't answer.

Has anyone else received these (missed) calls? Is it a scam, or (highly unlikely) are amazon really really eager to contact her?

EDIT - Just found the number here, somebody else reported it today - https://www.phonenumbers.ie/number/0860205296

whiterebel · 11-05-2022 6:17pm

It's going on for probably the last 2 years. They are spoofing the numbers. A variation on the "Garda" or "Dept of Social Welfare"

Mod - I'm moving this thread to the scam thread.

Deregos. · 24-05-2022 7:40pm

5 scam calls so far today all from different numbers, these dickheads seem to be increasing the number of calls to my phone lately. I'm self employed and my number is online so I think thats where they must be finding it unfortunately. I ignore & block them but it's still a pain in the hole.

El Gato De Negocios · 31-05-2022 7:59pm

Got a text from Addresspal earlier, details as follows

Hi, AddressPal UK received an item for <ME>. If you are expecting an item, email APW number & invoice to AddressPalEnquiries@airbusiness.com. Quote XXX.

Is this a new thing from them? I've never gotten it before and have used AP multiple times. Got no email and when I log in to my AP account there is nothing showing there. Now as it happens, I am expecting something however its an item from a private seller so I don't have an invoice.

Unsure if its a scam website/Call/Text?

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